Mel D. Cole, New York, NY 5.30.20, 2020.

Say Their Names

Mel D. Cole’s photographs document the largest movement in US history
Yxta Maya Murray
Tamara Shopsin. © Michael Schmelling

Geek Love

Bookforum talks with Tamara Shopsin about LaserWriter II, her novel of a Manhattan computer-repair shop
Lisa Borst
Tao Lin, mandala 4, 2014, graphite and ink on watercolor paper, 8 x 8". Courtesy the artist

Alt the Lonely People

Tao Lin meets midlife
Adam Wilson

Creation Myths

Revisiting Harold Rosenberg’s 1952 essay on the American Action Painters
Debra Bricker Balken

He Liked Having Enemies

The contested legacy of D. H. Lawrence
Daphne Merkin
paper trail
Elizabeth Hardwick
Joy Williams on Jim Harrison’s poetry; Zachary Fine considers “the prolonged season” of Elizabeth Hardwick
interviews
Alexandra Brodsky. Photo: Lily Olsen
Bookforum talks with Alexandra Brodsky about her new book investigating how sexual violence is adjudicated
Moira Donegan
culture
Assembly of the Voyager Golden Record, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, August 4, 1977. NASA/JPL-Caltech
What would music be like without human listeners?
Nathan Goldman
fiction
Max (W. G. Sebald), © Reinbert Tabbert
An excerpt from Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
Carole Angier
culture
Louise Bourgeois, The Destruction of the Father, 1974, latex, plaster, wood, fabric, red light, 7' 9 5/8“ x 11' 10 5/8” x 8' 1 7/8". © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Collection Glenstone Museum, Potoma
Reconsidering the phallic art of Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama
Sarah Boxer
politics
Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, July 2019. U.N. Women/Allison Joyce/Flickr
Dismantling the logic underlying liberal immigration policies
Natasha Lennard
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